Jaykzo:The internet has solved this case long before the MSM or the FBI ever will, those know-nothing dummies

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2 and 6 are both even numbers. EVEN. This is somebody getting even. Another term for getting even is payback. Who starred in payback? Mel Gibson. Half of 26 is 13. What was Mel Gibson in 13 years ago? The Patriot. Patriot Day.

This is payback for Mel Gibson's wife not blowing him in the hot tub. Study it out.

what_now:Thrag: hockeyfarker: what_now: They keep showing this video, and there's an old guy who's 10 feet from the finish and when the bomb hits, he simply collapses. I know it's not the worst thing that happened, but the idea of a guy of advanced years getting hit by shrapnel 10 feet from finishing a marathon... I don't even.

I saw some aftermath pictures, that guy was okay. Well, he wasn't bleeding, eyes were open and alert, cops were helping him, anyways. No shrapnel. Probably couldn't hear shiat though.

He's being interviewed on CNN right now.

Don't have CNN- is he ok? Did he finish?

Yeah, #2 in his age division, but officials are striking his time because he had a tailwind at the end.

Behold, the words of the man who claims to know how to properly secure a large scale event in a metropolitan area. The words of a man who, within mere hours of a tragedy occuring, has the wisdom and knowledge to correctly assign blame on those whose negligence were responsible for said tragedy. And throughout all of this work he's done, he still has time to type out a "fark you asshole" on the internet.

How can he be an idiot when he clearly knows exactly who to blame in this situation? Anyone who knows how to prevent a spontaneous act of terror and destruction can not just be called anidiot. Give the man his respect! He and he alone is positive he knows how to prevent these sort of incidents, and he's nice enough to share that knowledge with us Internetters instead of applying his talent as an FBI/DoD/DHS agent.

mediablitz:Fox News coverage has been excellent all day. Then O'Reilly's show starts and I remember what complete shiat stains they have. Peter King is (of COURSE) the first guest, and he KNOWS it is those dirty Muslims and this is why we need to curtail freedom in the United States, but the stupid Liberals JUST WON'T LISTEN.

emonk:badhatharry: I understand politically correct sensibilities. However, it is ok to speculate on which assholes did this. We are not the cops or the media. We are free to say what we think. I want to hear what other people think. That's why I'm here.

Lollipop165:I do want to say how proud I am of those brave men and women who rushed TOWARD the attack to help those in need. Heroes indeed.

farking goddamn this... choked me right up to watch the video right after the blast where you can see EMTs, cops and what appear to be military personnel running toward the smoke and craziness. It's stupid how proud that made me, safe and sound here in Michigan. Boston emergency responders are clearly the sh-t.... I'll never make fun of that retarded accent again.

Mrtraveler01:Whoever mentioned ESPN's coverage of this. Thank you very much.

CNN and the rest of its cable friends are worthless since now at this point they are just speculating stuff out of thin air.

I imagine John King on his large plasma screen shrinking and expanding Google Maps footage of the blast site and speculating on where other packages were found, while Wolf Blitzer insinuates that the president is weak on foreign policy, while Anderson Cooper tries to swim inside the belly of a great white shark carrying a high explosive device to prove that sharks were not responsible for the mass murder because no shark residue was found (so far) on the devices.

Corn_Fed:It's not a true tragedy until Pat Robertson blames it all on the gays.

I'm fairly sure Westboro has already said this is punishment for Mass. allowing gay marriage, so close enough. It's really amazing how much damage I was able to do considering I didn't even know about this until several hours after it happened and even though I haven't had sex in months.

I do apologize to all the straight folks that were killed and maimed because I chose to be attracted to men instead of women.

dukeblue219:For all the Farkers who never leave their mother's basement:

Police dogs are common at events with thousands of spectators.The National Guard is often used to help with crowd control and traffic flow with events that occupy a large part of a major city (parades, marathons, protests, etc).

Just because you haven't seen a "bomb dog", or what you assume is a bomb dog, at a marathon before, doesn't mean the dog is part of a vast international governmental conspiracy.

Ask yourself this:Why was traffic DIVERTED from the path of the Boston Marathon, only for today?Seems rather CONVENIENT, doesn't it?

Lord_Baull:NeoCortex42: If it's a white guy, at least the discussion can be constrained to the individual/group and the actual incident. If it's a brown guy, we go even further into the Muslim=terrorist crap.

This is an interesting statement.

Imagine how much Fark will flip their shiat if the guilty party is a cop or ex-cop. Or a hot teacher. Or an HOA president. Or an executive at EA.

I've blown up enough shiat to recognize an amateur explode-y builder. I'm putting my money on a nut (or a very small group of nuts), probably domestic. The fact that it's tax day seems to be a coincidence rather than a motivation, I'm looking more at large groups of people in a small area.

/Yes I realize I'll look like an ass if I'm wrong//Joke is on all of you, I'm already an ass

Drew:Also folks - be aware that at this stage in the news cycle pretty much no one knows anything, and 90% of everything's gonna be issued a correction later by MSM. That said it still helps to know what's going on now

Also folks - be aware that at this stage in the news cycle pretty much no one knows anything, and 90% of everything's gonna be issued a correction later by MSM. That said it still helps to know what's going on now

Jaykzo: is framing Mel Gibson to distract us from Sasha's spring break trip, but his unconscious mind can't help but give himself away.

I've got Malkin on the phone and Breittbart's carcass on skype. They're saying that this is news to them, and have promised to keep us anonymous as sources.

EDIT: Alex Jones just crawled out from behind a hedge in my backyard, and used sign language to inform me that I will be on his podcast tomorrow using voice-modifying technology to protect myself. The world needs to know this info. No more bullshiat! Truth now!

If this isn't all over the major media sites by tomorrow, it's 100% proof of how deep the rabbit hole goes. And Richard Jewell "passed away" today of all days. Convenient!

BSABSVR:Well, who has Mel Gibson got in trouble for blaming things on? The Jews. Who has proven himself no friend to Israel? Obama. A marathon is 26 miles, the Obamas were married 21 years ago. 26-21=5. Malia was born 5 years after the Obamas were married. After Malia came Sasha and then the Obamas took a break from having kids.

*Gasp*

Obama is framing Mel Gibson to distract us from Sasha's spring break trip, but his unconscious mind can't help but give himself away.

I've got Malkin on the phone and Breittbart's carcass on skype. They're saying that this is news to them, and have promised to keep us anonymous as sources.

EDIT: Alex Jones just crawled out from behind a hedge in my backyard, and used sign language to inform me that I will be on his podcast tomorrow using voice-modifying technology to protect myself. The world needs to know this info. No more bullshiat! Truth now!

InmanRoshi:Xcott: InmanRoshi: The entire purpose of an act of political terrorism is to make a statement. Not making the statement to tie it to your politics kinda defeats the purpose.

I see your logic and raise you the Atlanta Olympic bombing. Eric Lee Rudolph didn't issue any statement claiming credit, and it was only tied to him one or two years later. His choice of target didn't seem to send a clear political message about anything, and it was anyone's guess why some dude bombed the Olympics.

If you have a subculture like the 90s militia subculture or white nationalists, a terrorist act may simply be an attack on the USA, and only intended to have symbolic meaning to other members of the subculture, not for the general public. The OK city bombing was intended to be a signal for other militia types to rise up and revolt against the USA, for example.

I think a lone nutter like Rudolph has to stay quiet because there is no one else to advance the cause if he's caught. If it's a multi-national, muti-facetied organized political organization like Al Qaeda, I imagine they're getting in front of cameras as soon as possible. Didn't they do precisely that with 9/11? The only plausible way I could see this being an international political network is if it's a group that wants to keep their association to themselves (see Pakistani ISI)

Rudolph wasn't a lone nutter, he was affiliated with Army of God. It's just that Army of God was more interested in casualties than with credit and thus he and the rest of them kept their mouths shut.

Srsly, the chances are that this is Islamic terrorism. Check bombings world wide. 90% of them are from Islamic terrorists. You guys keep hoping and hoping. Its quite sick. Who knows maybe your little fantasy will come true this time.

It could easily be Islamic terrorism. They love their symbolic dates. I'm sure April 15, Tax Day, Patriot Day, and the day Lincoln died are all symbolic events in Islamic faith. And Boston, of course, everyone remembers when the heretics were thrown in the harbor by the Caliphate. And April 19th is the date of the actual Battles of Lexington and Concord, the real shot heard round the world, the first battle in the American Revolution, another known Muslim holiday. But really, who knows where Lexington and Concord are today.

Samwise Gamgee:Void_Beavis:Then why wasn't the trash can removed prior to the race? Again, this sort of thing isn't new.

So much of this leads me to believe proper security measures weren't carried out for this event. From several eyewitness accounts saying there was no dog presence to the lax security around removing trash cans...

Because if they had removed the trash cans, there'd be farking trash everywhere.

Look, dude, you're viewing this incident with the wisdom of hindsight. OF COURSE 'they' could have done this or that which might have prevented things. But the Boston Marathon isn't the only time or place where large groups congregate and could be the victims of shrapnel bombs. Youcan't lock down every aspect of human endeavor. If they took every security precaution you now wish they had taken, bombs would probably have gone off somewhere else instead.

Your statement that they should have removed the trash cans for a marathon makes as much sense as the TSA confiscating nail clippers and water bottles. They are both vain attempts to identify security failures in hindsight and are frankly both overreactions.

You feel that a bad thing happened, and you're out for blood, looking to blame someone. Blame whoever planted those farking bombs, because they're responsible. Not the poor saps who were tasked with trying to secure a 26 mile long perimeter playing host to thousands of people.

There is no way to stop the sort of thing that happened today. Just this past year alone - the Aurora movie theater massacre; the Newton elementary school shootings. Are you going to call for the heads of the movie theater ushers and the one rent-a-cop on duty at the elementary school, too, for their gross security failures?

The best you can do is strive to create a world in which people just don't want to do this sort of thing. It's not as easy and quick as 'removing trash cans' but I think you'll find that in the end, nothing else will farking work.

Void_Beavis:Then why wasn't the trash can removed prior to the race? Again, this sort of thing isn't new.

So much of this leads me to believe proper security measures weren't carried out for this event. From several eyewitness accounts saying there was no dog presence to the lax security around removing trash cans...

Because if they had removed the trash cans, there'd be farking trash everywhere.

Look, dude, you're viewing this incident with the wisdom of hindsight. OF COURSE 'they' could have done this or that which might have prevented things. But the Boston Marathon isn't the only time or place where large groups congregate and could be the victims of shrapnel bombs. Youcan't lock down every aspect of human endeavor. If they took every security precaution you now wish they had taken, bombs would probably have gone off somewhere else instead.

Your statement that they should have removed the trash cans for a marathon makes as much sense as the TSA confiscating nail clippers and water bottles. They are both vain attempts to identify security failures in hindsight and are frankly both overreactions.

You feel that a bad thing happened, and you're out for blood, looking to blame someone. Blame whoever planted those farking bombs, because they're responsible. Not the poor saps who were tasked with trying to secure a 26 mile long perimeter playing host to thousands of people.

There is no way to stop the sort of thing that happened today. Just this past year alone - the Aurora movie theater massacre; the Newton elementary school shootings. Are you going to call for the heads of the movie theater ushers and the one rent-a-cop on duty at the elementary school, too, for their gross security failures?

The best you can do is strive to create a world in which people just don't want to do this sort of thing. It's not as easy and quick as 'removing trash cans' but I think you'll find that in the end, nothing else will farking work.

Amos Quito:Now That's What I Call a Taco!: This could be an example of Al-Qaeda's evolving M.O. There's lots of evidence that they're moving to a setup where individuals are encouraged to make their own bomb(s) and hit "soft targets," rather than the more centrally planned and executed style used during 9/11, for example.

What if it's something way out of left field? What if it's Saskatchewan declaring war on the United States? What if it's a terrorist attack by some obscure Australian organization that hates blue M&Ms? What if it's an angry ex-wife trying to kill her ex-husband and his new wife? What if it's a guy who watched too many movies and set off some bombs to divert attention from him while he burglarized an office? What if it's a protest against Lindsay Lohan getting off without jail time again?

All I'm saying is that right now we don't know. It could be anyone, anything, any reason. It's too early to babble on and on about the villain(s) here. Let's worry about the victims for now. We'll catch the bad guys later, I'm sure.

From the size of the flash, the color, and the volume of white smoke pouring straight up, combined with a tightly contained explosion at ground level (ground level based on the types and placement of the leg injuries, contained partly by the crowd, but look at the video...balloons un popped within feet of the blast).The explosive used was probably PETN.

Either remotely detonated or likely timed.

Placement of secondaries and a massive soft target of an international event right in front of the largest collection of cameras and tv crews.

thisiszombocom:Void_Beavis: ongbok: cameroncrazy1984: Giltric: Guy was acting suspicious after the bombing and a group of people tackled him....supposedly this is the "saudi national" they were talking about earlier and he is cooperating with authorities

I've seen muslims shout allah ackbar when enemies have died and when compatriots have died. There are many reasons to say it, I wonder if this was the suspicious activity they are talking about, dude was sending an SOS to God and caught a beatdown.

He was running away from the explosion. Totally suspicious.

If he was so innocent, why was he running away?

Hey man, if shiat is exploding all around you and people are getting their legs chopped off from underneath them what the fark would you do?

Void_Beavis:ongbok: cameroncrazy1984: Giltric: Guy was acting suspicious after the bombing and a group of people tackled him....supposedly this is the "saudi national" they were talking about earlier and he is cooperating with authorities

I've seen muslims shout allah ackbar when enemies have died and when compatriots have died. There are many reasons to say it, I wonder if this was the suspicious activity they are talking about, dude was sending an SOS to God and caught a beatdown.

He was running away from the explosion. Totally suspicious.

If he was so innocent, why was he running away?

Hey man, if shiat is exploding all around you and people are getting their legs chopped off from underneath them what the fark would you do?

Didn't Nixion just use old fashioned full-sized bombers for his illegal bombings?

Yup. He didn't fark around with the kills. None of this namby-pamby targeted shiat, you've got to remember that shag carpeting was a big deal back then and Nixon liked his booze. When Kissinger suggested carpetbombing random neighbors of Viet Nam, Nixon heard "new carpeting" and was all "hell yeah, Henry, do it!"

So I'm guessing you guys never actually have heard what G Gordon Liddy's actual voice sounds like

Yeah dude. That's kind of the point of terrorism. Let's all be scared in our houses and afraid to get out and enjoy life and not sign up for the next marathon and worry 24/7. Typical media level scare tactics. "Is a new virus going to wipe out humanity? And a fire just killed 3 people. News at 11."

It can happen anywhere, SO you should live like today could be your last day. Hug your kids, love your job, try to be a better person every day. Don't be afraid to live.

Giltric:Guy was acting suspicious after the bombing and a group of people tackled him....supposedly this is the "saudi national" they were talking about earlier and he is cooperating with authorities

I've seen muslims shout allah ackbar when enemies have died and when compatriots have died. There are many reasons to say it, I wonder if this was the suspicious activity they are talking about, dude was sending an SOS to God and caught a beatdown.

You know what's really upsetting to me, other than the senseless violence today?

We live in what we have convinced ourselves is the greatest country in the world. I was raised to believe this. Even with our shortcomings, there's nowhere else I'd rather live. And sadly, what do we see, here at Fark, on FB, anywhere anyone can comment?

We see a bunch of he said/she said dick swinging, with people fighting and arguing and acting like spoiled children. It's selfish to make this about ourselves. We make it about ourselves when we throw out our completely uneducated, often ignorant opinions, making baseless accusations and fighting with each other.

This thread could be a catch-all for news and updates, which is really what I think the intention was. Instead, we have a bunch of internet tough guys looking foolish. Way to go, fellas. I'm ashamed of you.

/An 8 year old was one of the dead. I have kids. I don't know what I'd do if I lost one of my children.//hugged my kids after work, gonna go hug them again as they're better behaved than some people in this thread

nilThreek:For the record, if I'm critically injured like some of the folks in the gory pics were, and there's some low-life photographer inches away from me with a camera snapping pics instead of trying to help the injured (who are obviously bleeding out and don't have anyone helping them yet), I'm going to haunt the fark out of them if there's a ghost-like afterlife...

If pic#8 guy survives (hopefully he survived ..?), I would have a major schadenfreudegasm if he goes all Liam Neeson on the camera guy...

He could sharpen his protruding tibia to a spear-like tip and use it to stab the photographer.

THERMITE FOUND AT THE BOSTON SITES!"People were reporting silver colored dust in the area. If you look at the pictures right after the detonation you can clearly see this in the air. Who has the most to gain from this all? Obama and his elite handlers. This is another inside job using the same materials that brought down building 7. Don't let them cover this up"

MrHappyRotter:Corn_Fed: It's not a true tragedy until Pat Robertson blames it all on the gays.

I'm fairly sure Westboro has already said this is punishment for Mass. allowing gay marriage, so close enough. It's really amazing how much damage I was able to do considering I didn't even know about this until several hours after it happened and even though I haven't had sex in months.

I do apologize to all the straight folks that were killed and maimed because I chose to be attracted to men instead of women.

Your Average Witty Fark User:Somacandra: Your Average Witty Fark User: I can't believe the number of people commenting on places like CNN blaming this on Obama.

I don't see even the hypothetical connection. Are people actually suggesting it was some kind of drone strike from the White House on the Boston Marathon?

I've seen "It's Obama's fault because he didn't stop it", "It's Obama's fault because he golfed on Saturday", "It's Obama's fault because he planned this to happen", "Radical Islam did it, so Obama", "Democrats are behind this to increase the TSA so Obama", "Socialism, so Obama", "Obama lied about Beghazi, he's lying about this", "If Obama had just banned bombs like he wants to ban guns...", etc, etc, etc...

It makes me farking sick. CNN comments look like Fox News. It sickens me to think half of this country has an IQ of 3. Combined.

Fox News shut off their comments on their site. Apparently, they got tired of their own derp. So, the derp moved to CNN and Yahoo news.

mesmer242:Anyone who's already at the blaming stage just sounds like this to me.

What if they're blaming the Department of Homeland Security and the BPD, who are supposed to protect us from terror plots, especially those that result in unattended packages set right on the ground in plain sight? What was Boston doing with all those DHS millions? Keeping us safe from Moonenites?

Personally, the information we've got so far leads me to the opinion that this was probably a domestic nutter. The lack of organization (judging by the severe, but fairly small-scale results) and the rudimentary, kludged tech level of the bombs speak to one person acting alone. That single actor, combined with the time and place chosen, say domestic rather than international, as the latter tend to have at least some manner of support structure.

That said, I do think this really was a lone individual. I stress that in order to say that I believe this individual isn't representative of any group or political faction. I'm as left-wing as they come, and I think this guy is most likely one of the True PatriotTM types, but that doesn't mean that his actions represent the people who share his ideology in any way, shape, or form. We could probably have a discussion about cultures of fear, oppression, and anger in groups like that, and the effect mentalities like that have on people, but I do not, and I believe we should not, blame a group or faction for the actions of one lone nut. To do so would be as fallacious as blaming all Christians, or even all evangelical Southern Baptists, for the actions of WBC. Sharing an ideology is NOT the same as condoning actions, and we should all take care not to make that mistake, no matter how this plays out.

douchebag/hater:indarwinsshadow: I'm not sure if this the right time, but, I'd like to give my support to my fellow American farkers. Hope you're all well, that you're families are safe and well, and that whoever did this, pays dearly. I'm tired of terrorist trash making the world unsafe. I'm not scared. I'm pissed.

D in Canada.

Dude when would be the WRONG TIME to express those sentiments?

When you're on Hockey Night in Canada, and Sideshow Ron tries to goad you into saying something stupid?

TheShavingofOccam123:There was the time they grabbed a Brit military man who was with his wife and children shopping for shoes. They took him out in the street and shot him to death in front of his family.

Or the two Brits who went for a drive and got lost. And dragged out of their car and beat to death.

That uses actual high explosives and non hardened steel balls, whereas this dumbass used hardened steel ball bearings which shatter and gun powder which is subsonic and produces more waste heat and lots of smoke.

"Kincheloe immediately suggested using softer 1/8-inch (3.2 mm) steel "gingle" balls, which were used in the foundry process. They did not spall from the shock of the explosive, but deformed into a useful aerodynamic shape similar to a .22 rimfire projectile. Using a homemade chronograph, the engineers clocked the balls at 3,775 feet (1,151 m) per second. The second change was to use a poured plastic matrix to briefly contain the blast from the explosive, so that more of the blast energy was converted into projectile velocity. After a number of experiments, the engineers settled on Devcon-S steel-filled epoxy to hold the balls in place. With this change, the velocity improved to 3,995 feet (1,218 m) per second.[1]"

Not being American, I am not familiar with your holidays etc. but is it correct this occurred on Tax Day?

In a city once known for its 'patriots' who took a violent stand against taxation but is now a somewhat liberal bastion, to the point of holding a marathon commemorating an event that has been the biggest kick in the nuts to the pro-gun/FREEDOM population of America?

Bunny Deville:nvmac: Bunny Deville: Well, I guess my faith in humanity is somewhat restored, seeing that a good half of you are tired of people laying the blame for this on the group of their choice.

I blame assholism, personally, no matter who did it.

So, we're at 50%? Well, that's probably the national average as well. Humanity needs to be at least at 95%. Maybe one day we'll get there, not that we've ever been close in the history of man.

/hey bunny//*sadface*

I've been on a one woman crusade to get people to STOP ACTING LIKE ASSHOLES ON THE INTERNET for a couple of months now. Calling your fellow citizens "teabagger counts" or "mooslim fanatics" or "liberal baby killers" or WHATEVER is a form of dehumanization. Dehumanizing your fellow man makes it easier to commit acts like this, which then kill innocent people who probably weren't whatever racial/cultural/political slur the killer intended to harm in the first place.

badhatharry:I understand politically correct sensibilities. However, it is ok to speculate on which assholes did this. We are not the cops or the media. We are free to say what we think. I want to hear what other people think. That's why I'm here.

hubiestubert:So far, all my Boston peeps have checked in or been confirmed to be OK.

I'm going to go out on a limb here. I'm not going to pretend that I'm not angry about this. I'm not going to pretend to not want the folks responsible found, but I am going to suggest that maybe we dial back the rage, and not point fingers just yet, until the folks on the ground actually do their jobs. I know that speculation IS something we are all pretty good at, but at this point, things are spotty information-wise, and while there are professional fear mongers who are slathering at the chance to advance their ratings and their own agendas, it would be satisfying as f*ck if we DIDN'T give in to their game. Folks are looking to hop on this event, and ride it for all their worth, and advance as many crack pot theories and conspiracies, and spin human tragedy into their own brand of gold. Let's let folks do their jobs, find the scum responsible, and maybe NOT jump to conclusions until we get something confirmed. Domestic, Islamic, some other brand of terrorist, it is up in the air, and gesticulating wildly doesn't really do any good, nor pointing fingers and getting hett up at idiots who want to pump up "their" side, when the sad fact is, there aren't a lot of sides here. Just a lot of folks who got hurt, and they were our neighbors and friends, and maybe we should find out who did this, before screaming for them to get strung up, and volunteering folks for the gallows early.

Just a thought. Let's get the facts in first. Then maybe we can even bring them to trial, and see justice done. Of course, being Boston, the suspects may just have a serious trip and fall accident on the way to their cell block or even leaving the scene of their arrest, but let's at least give the police and the FBI a chance to identify folks before screaming that ONE side or ANOTHER was responsible.Just a thought.

CygnusDarius:meat0918: badhatharry: I understand politically correct sensibilities. However, it is ok to speculate on which assholes did this. We are not the cops or the media. We are free to say what we think. I want to hear what other people think. That's why I'm here.

Tax day bombings, home grown terrorism.

Iran may be crazy, but they aren't that crazy.

The reasonable side of me thinks the same. Or, could be Aryan Brotherhood, since apparently they're starting to be more and more aggressive these days.

Channeling my inner Alex Jones, it's a way to push a war with Iran. But again, that's my inner Alex Jones.

Omahawg:meat0918: badhatharry: I understand politically correct sensibilities. However, it is ok to speculate on which assholes did this. We are not the cops or the media. We are free to say what we think. I want to hear what other people think. That's why I'm here.

Tax day bombings, home grown terrorism.

Iran may be crazy, but they aren't that crazy.

that seems more likely.

the level of derp since obama was elected seems just like the clinton is satan incarnate mass hysteria before okie city

it's all sorts of sad

Same thing happened with Clinton.

But as hubie said, we should dial back any outrage until some good facts are in.

J. Frank Parnell:Don't want to get into a big thing about it, but there is a long history of media and eyewitnesses reporting multiple explosions immediately after terrorist attacks in the US, which are later forgotten.

This just in, people in shock often report they saw and heard things that didn't happen. More at 11.

Carth:Endive Wombat: Carth: Boston Scanner: A Penske truck tried to enter the area saying it was delivering medical supplies. The truck was turned away and denied entrance. They are trying to find the truck at this time.

Cell phone Service is being shut down in the city.

Being shut down or overloaded???

from AP

A law enforcement official says cellphone service has been shut down in the Boston area to prevent any potential remote detonations of explosives.

yeah I mentioned that in the earlier thread, that emergency protocols call for such things

Apology if it's already come up, but everyone should make very clear mental notes about the eyewitness and media reports of multiple explosions. Some people have a habit of getting amnesia when the media begins to repeat there was only one later on.

zippolight2002:I'm going to throw my theory out there for shiats and giggles, just so I can come back to it and see how close I got.

-Single domestic terrorist-Novice-Built then stashed the bombs a store/hotel along the marathon path prior to marathon prep, allowing him to get through initial checkpoints without any hassle (assuming they have them)-Waited for a dog sweep before getting the bombs and planting them 10 minutes prior to detonation before another dog sweep could detect them

MrHappyRotter: STOP JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS BEFORE WE HAVE ALL THE FACTS

But the media needs to stoke fear and confusion first by breathlessly reporting BREAKING NEWS when it's really nothing of the sort. They're desperate to be first to report something, so they'll report anything and everything and then issue corrections later.

Hate to say it, but the US media, in instances like this, does 50% of the terrorists' jobs for them, by promoting fear, disgust and total conjecture at whomever did this, ratcheting up the attention, which is EXACTLY what those farks want.

Not to mention wall-to-wall video every 2 minutes.

CNN: "We have new video in that shows the explosion again from a different angle, but beware, this might be disturbing and very frightening."Terrorists: "Hooray!"

Begoggle:Lord_Baull: NeoCortex42: If it's a white guy, at least the discussion can be constrained to the individual/group and the actual incident. If it's a brown guy, we go even further into the Muslim=terrorist crap.

This is an interesting statement.

Imagine how much Fark will flip their shiat if the guilty party is a cop or ex-cop. Or a hot teacher. Or an HOA president. Or an executive at EA.

National tragedy, all of us are hurt, blah blah blahtey blah, quack-quack.Sympathetic commentary at the first opportunity is not leadership.

And you'd probably be one of the first in line to gritch if he didn't appear on TV to offer his condolences.

I truly don't give a shiat what the president does or doesn't do.He doesn't know anything and nothing he says will add to the collective understanding.Local and national law enforcement are working together, all resources will be applied, blah, farking blah.Heard it a million times before here in the Empire of the Naked Apes.And this is Obama, whose favorite war crime is the use of drones to blow people up.

Begoggle:Lord_Baull: NeoCortex42: If it's a white guy, at least the discussion can be constrained to the individual/group and the actual incident. If it's a brown guy, we go even further into the Muslim=terrorist crap.

This is an interesting statement.

Imagine how much Fark will flip their shiat if the guilty party is a cop or ex-cop. Or a hot teacher. Or an HOA president. Or an executive at EA.

Boston Police commissioner press conference: People are being questioned but there is no suspect 'in custody'. He weaseled around whether they are guarding a specific person at mass general. Two confirmed explosions the fire at the library isn't confirmed as related. 15 block area closed off for 24 hours.

HotIgneous Intruder:willfullyobscure: zippolight2002: like the national guard being deployed along the route, the bomb sniffing dogs that were at the finish line, and so on, just because you don't like the person pointing them out. 'I don't like you, thus you are lying. Boot to the headface!'. I'm so glad we have open-minded people like you around....Um, those are pretty standard practices now for any high-profile event. Bomb sniffing dogs went through freaking Bracket Town in Atlanta during the Final 4.

Too soon to point out that apparently the bomb dogs are not working out very well?

These dogs are Gen X.

Back in my day, dogs worked for a living! Puppies have it too easy these days, live with their parents and such.

Carth:Endive Wombat: Carth: Boston Scanner: A Penske truck tried to enter the area saying it was delivering medical supplies. The truck was turned away and denied entrance. They are trying to find the truck at this time.

Cell phone Service is being shut down in the city.

Being shut down or overloaded???

from AP

A law enforcement official says cellphone service has been shut down in the Boston area to prevent any potential remote detonations of explosives.

They say that, but mine still works. Just to be sure, I'm checking every number.111-1111. Yep, ringing.111-1112. Yep, ringing...

Any truth to the reports that they have a suspect in custody that is a Saudi national? Or is this one of these false reports that come out in the panic of a breaking news story that Conspiracy Theorists will use to turn into "evidence" of a cover up?

/Someone screen capture this for reposting proof in the future that I called it...

Communist_Manifesto:I'm honestly surprised things like this don't happen in the US more often. We are a very large nation with a ton of enemies both internal and external. Add in the fact that if you want to detonate a bomb somewhere there isn't a whole lot stopping you from acquiring the materials and doing it. Hopefully this is the typical american loner/psycho/mass-murderer and not a prequel to some sort of large sustained terror campaign funded/coordinated by some sort of radical group in our biggest cities.

I'm not really surprised it doesn't happen more often. For all of our American bluster, most of us would rather hash things out with angry words on a message board than actually really for real initiate violence against each other. Even the herpiest and derpiest among us recognize that real freedom is calling someone an asshole, them calling you a dickhead, and then going home and having dinner with the wife and kids.

Endive Wombat:Carth: Boston Scanner: A Penske truck tried to enter the area saying it was delivering medical supplies. The truck was turned away and denied entrance. They are trying to find the truck at this time.

Cell phone Service is being shut down in the city.

Being shut down or overloaded???

Probably shut down, to prevent remote detonation by phone if there are additional devices using that method.

Communist_Manifesto:I'm honestly surprised things like this don't happen in the US more often. We are a very large nation with a ton of enemies both internal and external. Add in the fact that if you want to detonate a bomb somewhere there isn't a whole lot stopping you from acquiring the materials and doing it. Hopefully this is the typical american loner/psycho/mass-murderer and not a prequel to some sort of large sustained terror campaign funded/coordinated by some sort of radical group in our biggest cities.

Drew:Also folks - be aware that at this stage in the news cycle pretty much no one knows anything, and 90% of everything's gonna be issued a correction later by MSM. That said it still helps to know what's going on now

This. And it's the early, entirely wrong statements that will be still be getting repeated months later.

DGgeoff:From what I could gather, 2 are dead and 22 injured, there were 3 explosions, 1 controlled by the police. As of now they are checking all the bags left by runners and spectators on the sidewalks for more explosive devices

12:50 PM PT -- The New York Post is now saying at least 12 people are dead.

"A federal law-enforcement source told The Post there are at least 12 dead and nearly 50 injured. Fox News reported that Massachusetts General Hospital was treating 10 people with amputated limbs and all operating rooms were on hold. "

From what I could gather, 2 are dead and 22 injured, there were 3 explosions, 1 controlled by the police. As of now they are checking all the bags left by runners and spectators on the sidewalks for more explosive devices